Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Longest Walk 2 Continues…

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The Longest Walk 2 is wending its way across the country, bringing attention to the
preservation of sacred sites. As the northern route of the walk enters Colorado,
local activists, spiritual leaders and archeologists have welcomed them.
Although unable to attend numerous equinox ceremonies in the area of Crestone
(and the sacred eastern mountain massif, Sisnajini) the walkers offered to take
a message of local concern with them to DC: The Baca National Wildlife Refuge on
the border of Great Sand Dunes National Park is being threatened by gas
exploration by the Canadian company, Lexam. Prayers have been rendered with the
building of a huge Medicine Wheel and regular ceremonies near the proposed drill
sites (along with a court case and a demand for an Environmental Impact
Statement, of course!)
The Longest Walk 2 representatives will be carrying with them to Washington DC,
an article entitled “Resistance to Oil and Gas in Colorado’s Sacred San Luis
Valley” which appeared in the Brigid, 2008 (Jan.-Feb.) issue of Earth First! Journal.

For more info:

www.slvec.org

Since there seems to be an environmental crisis in everyone’s back yard, Longest
Walkers will be carrying many petitions to the Capitol on their sacred journey. Please
welcome and support them if they come to your area. Check the itinerary at:

www.longestwalk.org.)

They walk for the Mother and for us all!

Hundreds blockade Chevron refinery to protest war and warming

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from the San Francisco Chronicle

RICHMOND — More than 300 people marched from downtown Point Richmond to the Chevron refinery Saturday to protest the company they say is profiting from the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Twenty-four demonstrators were arrested for trespassing late in the afternoon after removing a police barricade, entering refinery property and linking arms, said Lt. Mark Gagan, a Richmond police spokesman. He said they cooperated with the arresting officers. Continue reading

Forests in China Hammered by Severe Winter Weather

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For some years now, we’ve been seeing reports of evidence that
forests will be getting whacked by storms on an increasing and/or
increasingly violent basis. So far as I know, that scenario was
repeated most recently in a December ’07 Annual Reviews article
focused solely on the future of the commercial forest industry. This
latest (northern hemisphere) winter demonstrated how the expected
damage might look.  Below, Science gives a rundown on what happened
in China. Among other things, China’s recent experience puts a
spotlight on the limitations of small reserves — in one case, only
58,000 ha.

Lance Olsen
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“This scale of damage has never happened before.”

“Exotic species were harmed more than native species,” says Ren. In
northern Guangdong Province, plantations of  slash pine (Pinus
elliottii), an import from the southern United States, splintered
under  wet snow …”

“Nanling’s entire forest between 500 meters and 1300 meters in
elevation was wiped out, says He.”

“Nanling Reserve is one of scores ….that took a beating from storms
in late January and early February…”

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U.S. Government Censors Another Climate Report

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“Reporters who have tried to interview the
report’s lead author, Federal Highway
Administration official Michael Savonis, have
been explicitly told by DOT officials that the
author and the press cannot communicate with each
other.”

“Federal scientists must be allowed direct
communication with the press, unimpeded by
politically-driven gatekeepers with an interest
in blocking the truth and playing down the
significance of climate research and assessment
findings.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2008
1:25 PM

Government Accountability Project

Climate Change Report Buried by DOT; Author Blocked From Reporters

WASHINGTON, DC – March 14 – This past Wednesday,
March 12, the U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT) and the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
quietly released a major assessment report on the
likely impacts of global climate disruption on a
wide range of transportation infrastructure in
the Gulf Coast region. This report release was
buried by the DOT, and officials have been
blocking journalists from speaking with the
report’s lead author.

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